Art and Science: Where Numerology and Mathematics Touch the Lung

Mathematical analysis in the physical seiences has a longhistory that reveals not only a rich harvest of fundamentalinsights but also leads to a wonderment at the in trinsicallyformal beauty in nature. Rigorous analysis or form andfunction in the biological sciences has been a more recentinnovation. but introduction of' the principles of similarity.scaling, fractal geometry, harmony and proportion hashroadened our perspective. The lung provides an apt exampleto illustrate the usefulness of this kind or thinking